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Speaking frankly at a Tokyo press conference, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has admitted that the Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged” the technical woes suffered by MMO title Final Fantasy XIV. The game launched last year and was instantly dogged by a host of technical hiccups and design …

Source divided a community; can its successor unify it?

Customers need to be inspired to find new experiences, studio says

EA’s latest video in its on-going Battlefield 3 hype campaign has gone live – and you can see it right here. The new short, entitled Above and Beyond the Call” (the ‘Call of Duty’, that is) features none other than Jay-Z, whose popular hit 99 Problems provides the musical backdrop …

GameStop, Valve, OnLive, PopCap and many more lined up for premier digital games event

SFC issues assurance as university fears losing independence

Portable versions to feature touch screen controls

Claims have emerged that staff members of UK Apple stores have been told to cancel any holiday booked for the first two weeks of October. Such claims have been made and passed without event before, but it just so happens that early October has already been fingered as the launch …

Event to showcase independent games and 'encourage innovation and artistry'

The value of IP is already very well understood, but one firm has claimed that games publishers in the West are slowly catching up with their Eastern counterparts by taking measures to protect their technical innovations. A new report from patent firm Withers & Rogers says that of the top …